Interisti should not get so smug as they have no clue what embrassment awaits them in the 2018/19 CL. The 3rd/4th place Serie A clubs are ill equipped to cope with the competition. It'll be a struggle for Inter to merely qualify for the group stage and if they do they'll finish dead last in their group.

I think ESPN and these major networks are completely out of their depth. How are you going to never talk about the raptors in the last decade then pretend to know the inner workings of the team.

I seen Stephen A Smith this morning saying that Dwayne Casey is being made to be as a scapegoat and that its BS. I don't think any real fan of Toronto thinks DC is the reason we lost this series. Over the last 3 seasons specifically we have been eliminated by LeBron and truthfully speaking this is the only season where we should have won/make it close with them.

As far as I'm concerned as a fan of Raptor basketball. This is Masai making the tough choice to let Casey walk when he's at his peak value while understanding that sometimes things don't work out for reasons out of your control.

Why bring Casey back and have the same thing happen with these players next season. Sending Casey out now with peak value at the very worse as atop 3 coach of the year candidate was the right move. You send him out now and bring the blame on to your team. Everyone is looking at Masai thinking this is so bad, this is on the players and it allows DC to fetch max value as a free agent.

To truly "fix" this squad we need new players and I think Masai looks at the contracts and lack of drafts picks and realizes it might be hard to make franchising altering moves this offseason.

So with this rant Casey has been nothing but first class. I wish him nothing but the best and im praying he doesn't go to the 76ers with lebron because that would be worse case scenario.

Ya like there's been so many narratives being thrown around and this morning I heard an ESPN clip in Canada and it just set me off. Like they actually bury all Toronto stories on their network and have the balls to finally talk about the raptors only when our franchises best ever coach is moving on. That's why viewership is dropping on those networks. Garbage unsubstantiated content

Edit: Seem to have struck a nerve here, I'm just saying that the team was already great and we should focus on how he performs in the NHL. The Marlies were 169-104-11-24 before he came over the same four season numbers.

Basketball is a Business. I'm not driving the trade Demar train but if you get something back that will improve the team you do it. Personally I think Ibaka and Lowry should be packaged out to provide us with either an elite player like Kawai or a bevy of younger player and draft picks.

I hope not. We have 0 picks in this upcoming draft so we need to make a move. I think it would be disrespectful to the Toronto fan base if Masai stood still and did nothing after seeing how this season unfolded. I doubt Giannis will leave the bucks.

What would we even do? Lowry is too old to get much value. Trading Deebo would feel horrible, Ibaka would have to be dumped. Most teams wouldn't want JV, and flipping our young guys would be against the point of a rebuild. Masai had great foresight in making sure the contracts expired at the same time.

As far as I'm concerned you can sell off Ibaka and Lowry as players that can help you win now to a team like the Spurs. More than anything I think Ibaka needs to gtfo. He's had a brutal playoffs thus far and he's set to make more than 20 million for 2 more seasons.

I wouldn't mind rolling with Demar and JV as I feel like JV is criminally underutilized and maybe loading up with more perimeter offense. Idk though I'd call San Antonio and ask what they want for Kawai because realistically Boston will be better than this Cleveland team when healthy next year. And I'd bet Philly will too so I'd approach it as you get Kawaii or commit to rebuild

I should have rephrased what I meant because I completely agree with your sentiment. After every loss there's been we need to trade player x and y. Fire DC ect ect. Rather than have these sub par posts why not group them all into a thread and deal with it there.

Listen. It obviously sucks we are in this position but let's not overlook how good OG is going to be. We can build around him and JV moving forward trade Ibaka and Lowry for Kawai and hopefully we can stay relevant

lmfao nice call. I'm a casual NBA fan and its because of the inconsistency in refereeing and the ability of superstar players to essentially make their own calls up I don't think I could ever watch NBA past my Raptors.

Yea I mean do I honestly think the raptors would win a series against the cavs I don't know. I think it would be close but the gross inconsistency with refereeing favoring the cavs and especially LeBron. Idk it's hard to actually enjoy the game as the average fan. You can't tell what a foul is and what isn't. It's just brutal.